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Digital Signature: Application Development Trends In E-Business
White Papers Applications of digital signature technology are on the rise because of legal and technological developments, along with strong market demand for secured transactions on the Internet. In order to predict the future demand for digital signature...
[September 23, 2006, 0:00]
Programming With The Java XML Digital Signature API
White Papers One of the significant new features of the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) is the Java XML Digital Signature API. XML signatures are a standard for digital signatures in the XML data format, and they allow the user to authenticate and...
[November 6, 2007, 23:00]
How To Tell If A Digital Signature Is Trustworthy
White Papers This paper explains what a digital signature is, and how one can check to make sure that a digital signature is trustworthy. A digital signature is used to authenticate digital information - such as documents, e-mail messages, and macros - by using...
[February 13, 2007, 23:00]
W3C Backs XML-based Digital Signature
News The premier Web standards body on Thursday recommended a way of signing documents using XML, calling its new digital signature guidelines a key tool for Web services infrastructure. The digital signature is just one tool in a group under...
[February 15, 2002, 11:20]
The Digital Signature Paradox
White Papers The system clock is the immediate source of time for any computer; and is the sole source for a time stamp determining when a document was created, modified and printed; or more interestingly when a digital signature was generated.
[February 28, 2008, 23:00]
Secure And Mobile Digital Signature For Internet Banking
White Papers The solution supports qualified certificates if required and provides optimal protection of the users signature key as required by European legislation. Taking an entirely new approach to digital signatures, Cryptomathic has developed a solution...
[March 10, 2008, 23:00]
Digital Signatures Get Web Standards Nod
News A standards group has completed work on digital signature technology designed to ensure data authenticity between interacting web servers. Version 1.0 of the Digital Signature Services standard provides a tamper-proof mechanism to provide...
[June 8, 2007, 8:45]
Mobile Signature Service Provider
White Papers For a GSM mobile operator (without strong commitment to WAP) enabling digital signature transport means introduction of a service interface (MSSP server) and upgrading of the existing SIMs to support PKI.
[November 15, 2005, 23:00]
PGP Inventor Downplays Encryption Flaw
News A flaw found by two Czech researchers in the popular OpenPGP digital signature standard is real but relatively minor, Phil Zimmermann, chairman of the open source group, said on Wednesday. Two Czech researchers said Tuesday that they had found a...
[March 22, 2001, 9:58]
E-commerce Bill Grows Up To Be An Act
News The e-commerce bill finished its long run through parliament Thursday but without the hoped-for digital signature from the Queen. To illustrate this, Hewitt hoped the Queen would give royal assent to the bill using a digital signature herself.
[May 26, 2000, 8:29]
ECTS: Copying CDs Just Got Harder
News SafeDisc is a software solution that requires no changes to either PC or CD-ROM hardware and works by placing a digital signature onto the master CD that cannot be copied by CD recorders or mastering equipment.
[September 7, 1998, 10:34]
Certificate Validation
White Papers Digital Signature Technology is a clear winner from this perspective. It is important that the organizations look into digital signature applications, which allow for these features within them so as to provide for an overall secure e-business...
[August 22, 2005, 0:00]
Intel Disables Chip ID Tracking
News Alfs said the rise of digital-signature technology has made the need for chip IDs obsolete. Intel, however, said privacy arguments were less of a factor in the decision than digital-signature technology.
[April 28, 2000, 8:42]
Digital Signatures 'could Be Forged'
News It's certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is the only signing algorithm approved for use in the US government's Digital Signature Standard. If you could find two contracts that hash out to the same signature, you...
[August 18, 2004, 8:35]
Signed Code: Security Or Censorship?
News For ActiveX components, the digital signature can be issued by a third party, such as VeriSign, under strict guidelines by Microsoft. The code cannot be changed without destroying the signature, giving users a way to link a company with a program.
[November 27, 2000, 15:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An acceptable signature key is one provided by a State-licenced digital signature company. If you are a licenced digital signature company, you'll also have to be licenced for any other confidentiality service you offer.
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News An acceptable signature key is one provided by a State-licenced digital signature company. If you are a licenced digital signature company, you'll also have to be licenced for any other confidentiality service you offer.
[October 24, 1998, 11:31]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
Talkback Near total confidence - much better than the confidence one can have that Windows Update has not been tampered with - can be had by validating a digital signature on the update using cryptographic security programs such as PGP or GPG.
[August 11, 2004, 10:25]
Digital Signatures Pose Security Risk, Says Expert
News Digital signatures are already legally admissible in court within the UK and Brand argues that the theft of a digital signature might in the future land someone in serious trouble. The movement towards a digital signature-based future may be...
[September 26, 2000, 11:45]
Web Services Spec Made Public
News Upgrades to UDDI Version 3 reported by the Operators Council include digital-signature support and the use of UDDI Business Registry (UBR) as a root registry. Zagelow also pointed to the addition of digital-signature support as a major step forward.
[August 22, 2003, 11:35]
